Inclusive Practice in the Primary School: A Guide for Teachers

Description

Do you want to feel more confident when teaching children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND)? Would you like to be a more inclusive teacher?
This book provides clear and flexible frameworks for effective inclusive teaching, and explains how to teach and plan for supporting any child's learning, no matter what their needs are.
With case studies and activities the book:
explains and contextualizes current beliefs towards SENprovides models for practice encourages you to engage in thinking about SEN and inclusionoffers interactive reflection points throughoutlinks out to research with suggestions for further reading
Whether you're training to be a primary school teacher or already in the classroom this book will make you feel confident to be the inclusive teacher you need to be.

Contents

Introduction: How to use this bookPart One1: Understanding special educational needs, disability and inclusive education2: The policy context for special educational needs, disability and inclusive education3: Models of difference and differentiation4: Inclusive classroom practice5: The 'special pedagogy' debatePart Two6: Strengthening the 'Whole Child' Approach through the Spiral Spectrum Model7: Personal, social and emotional development8: Communication, language and literacy development9: Physical development10: Drawing it all together - how children learn and how we teach inclusively